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Ship of Fools (Dave Stone)

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Ship of Fools is a novel written by Dave Stone. Released in 1997, it is the fourth book in Virgin's Bernice Summerfield series and tells of Benny being involved in a murder mystery.

Characters[]

  • Bernice Summerfield
  • Krytell - the CEO of Krytell Industries
  • Emil Dupont - a pastiche of famous detectives

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Publisher's summary[]

"So who do I have to kill to get off this cruise?"

When Krytell Industries offered Benny a small, slightly dubious and, um, unofficial job aboard the majestic space cruise-liner, the Titanian Queen, she jumped at the chance. After all, with an unlimited expense account, an entire new wardrobe and more strings of pearls and other jewels than you could shake an Art Deco stick at, what more could a poor girl want?

That was then.

Now, the luckless if remarkably deserving passengers of the Titanian Queen are dropping like flies. Are the deaths the work of the mysterious criminal known as the Cat's Paw? Or is the super-rich businessman Krytell himself somehow involved? And will the great detective, Emil Dupont, finally stop getting things completely and utterly wrong and solve it all in time for tea and muffins?

Whatever's happening, Benny had better discover the truth for herself, and discover it soon. Before she suddenly finds herself another highly deplorable crime statistic.

In-universe continuity[]

  • The Cat's Paw and Marcus Krytell were first mentioned in Paul Cornell's novel Oh No It Isn't!. The Cat's Paw was also mentioned in Justin Richards' novel Dragons' Wrath and Matt Jones' novel Beyond the Sun.
  • The Czhans were first mentioned in Stone's Doctor Who novel Death and Diplomacy.
  • Benny mentions the dissapearance of her father.
  • Franz Kryptosa was first mentioned in Dragons' Wrath and appears in the next novel.

See also[]

Title Author Release date Significance
Tempest Christopher Bulis 1998 A Bernice Summerfield murder mystery which pastiches Agatha Christie
Starship Titanic Terry Jones 1997 A novel set on a spaceship where things are going extremely wrong
Dry Pilgrimage Nick Walters and Paul Leonard 1998 A Bernice Summerfield murder mystery set on a ship
The Wardove L. Neil Smith 1986 An interstellar murder mystery set on a luxury cruise liner

Sources[]

  • TARDIS Wiki
           Bernice Summerfield novels

1997
Oh No It Isn't!, Dragons' Wrath, Beyond the Sun, Ship of Fools, Down, Deadfall, Ghost Devices, Mean Streets
1998
Tempest, Walking to Babylon, Oblivion, The Medusa Effect, Dry Pilgrimage, The Sword of Forever, Another Girl, Another Planet, Beige Planet Mars, Where Angels Fear
1999
The Mary-Sue Extrusion, Dead Romance, Tears of the Oracle, Return to the Fractured Planet, The Joy Device, Twilight of the Gods
2000s,
The Doomsday Manuscript, The Gods of the Underworld, The Squire's Crystal, The Infernal Nexus, The Glass Prison, The Big Hunt, The Tree of Life, Genius Loci, The Two Jasons
2010s
The Weather on Versimmon, The Slender-Fingered Cats of Bubastis, Filthy Lucre, Adorable Illusion

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